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'91st Overseas Battalion at Canterbury Cathedral, August 1916'
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Robert Moore Postcard Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- 1916
- Accession Number
- 2005-26
- Storage Location
- C6 Sh6 B2 F5 #13
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Robert Moore Postcard Collection
- Creator
- J.B. Charlton, Photographer, Canterbury, England
- Description Level
- Item
- Accession Number
- 2005-26
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 105
- Storage Location
- C6 Sh6 B2 F5 #13
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- 1916
- Publication
- Published on the Archives' flickr site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/elgincountyarchives/4322408910/in/set-72157623202562535.
- Physical Description
- 1 postcard : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm
- Custodial History
- A second copy, from the Cameron Collection, was added February 2013.
- Scope and Content
- Black and white photograph of the St. Thomas 91st Overseas Battalion marching in front of Canterbury Cathedral, while stationed in the United Kingdom in August, 1916. Has a faded postmark dated 1916. Addressed to Mr. McLachlin of St. Thomas. A previous owner has made a note that the card comes from W.F.L. Edwards (a soldier in the 91st Battallion), and that an M. McLachlin appears in the far left of the photograph. Published in the St. Thomas Times-Journal, April 11, 1950, with caption: "Members of the 91st Overseas Battalion of the First World War will recall this picture taken outside Canterbury Cathedral in England. It shows representatives of the Battalion, raised in Elgin County, arriving at the Cathedral, bearing the regimental colours, which were deposited in the Cathedral and remained there until the war's end, when they were brought back to Canada and placed, along with a stone from the Cathedral, in their present position in the chapel at Trinity Anglican Church, St. Thomas. Leading the party are Sergeant-Major W. Wakeling, Lieutenant Martinell McLachlin and Lieutenant Hugh C. Cameron. Others in the party include Colour Sergeant-Major Stevens and Colour Sergeant-Major McNaughton, Regimental Sergeant-Major Charles Watling, Lieutenant-Colonel W.J. Green, Major F.G. Stanbury, Captain W.F.L. Edwards, Major A.E. Medcalf, Captain D.E. Gerrard, Captain E.P. Cash, Captain George M. Baldwin, Captain Harry B. Madden, and Major George Stacey."
- Robert Marshall Anderson presented the 91st Overseas Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force with its colours at a ceremony in Pinafore Park, St. Thomas, on May 24, 1916.
- Name Access
- Ninety-First Overseas Battalion
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